Techniques and matters needing attention on how to raise quail

With the quality of life getting better and better, quail meat and quail eggs have become indispensable delicacies on our table. With the market supply falling short of demand, quail farmers have also encountered a lot of confusion. The simplest thing is that quails are very difficult to raise and die easily when they are young. Today, the editor will explain to you what problems should be paid attention to in the breeding of small quail eggs. Come and have a look!

How to raise little quail

1. Quails will run 5-6 hours after they come out of the shell, and it is appropriate to start eating sooner rather than later. Corn, broken rice, wheat flour and other mixtures are available for eating, and it is better to mix cooked egg yolk. After two or three days, they were gradually transferred to full-price mixed feed. Young quail ingredients are 52% corn, 27% bean cake, 10% fish meal, 5% wheat bran, 5% grass meal, 1% bone meal, 24-25% crude protein, and a calcium-phosphorus ratio of 2:1. In addition, 15% beating green material can be added, or 10 grams of multi-vitamins and appropriate trace elements can be added to every 100 jin of feed. Adding a small amount of antibiotics to the feed is more effective, which can not only prevent disease, but also promote growth.

2. Feeding small quails can be made into paste feed by using a snack trough in the brooding box and adding a small amount of water. Quail likes to eat, but the feed is easy to pollute and deteriorate in summer. For dry feed, add drinking fountains to supply water, and water should be supplied continuously all day long. Feed all day at the beginning, six meals a day after two weeks, and four meals a day after four weeks. It takes about 0.5 kilograms of concentrate to breed a small quail.

Quail breeding techniques and matters needing attention

1. Pay attention to heat preservation in brooding work. Electric lamp, kerosene stove, charcoal brazier or peak nest coal stove can be used for heat preservation. It is better to use electric lights to warm from above the incubator and kerosene stove, charcoal or honeycomb coal below or next to it.

2. The temperature of quail brooding can be 350-370C at the beginning, and then it can be reduced by 1-20C per day, and the temperature gradually drops to about 240-260C. Heat preservation for 20 days can remove the temperature. At the age of 3-4 days, the young quails can use 24-hour light to make the little quails familiar with the living environment, eat fully, eat and sleep warmly, and then gradually change to natural light and supplementary light sooner or later.

Prevention of two Diseases in raising Quail

1. Feather lice: feather lice are some external parasites belonging to the phylum Arthropoda, Insecta and Coleoptera. According to the different parasitic sites, there are two kinds of lice: head lice and feather stem lice. Bite feathers, dandruff, some suck on the blood of the partridge, so that the feather messy, shedding incomplete, skin damage and bleeding, mental uneasiness, anemia and emaciation, growth hindered.

2, mite: the mite body is no more than 2 mm, hidden in the gap in the cage during the day, come out at night to suck the partridge's blood, after sucking blood, the insect body is red, so it is also known as red mite. The warm and humid climate is the most suitable for the breeding of mites, and the harm to the young partridges is particularly serious.

How do quails breed?

1. Selection of improved varieties

A good quail should have moderate eyes, a slender neck, a small round head, shiny feathers, full muscles and a kind look. Don't choose close relatives. The breeding standard of female quail is that the abdominal volume is large, the weight is 130g to 150g, and the egg laying ability is not strong when the weight is more than 170g. The specific laying standard is that according to the egg production of female quails for 3 months, it is better to lay more than 250 eggs a year. Male quails can be selected after 50 days of hatching, requiring loud singing, slightly long and continuous sound, strong chest and wide body, full extension of quail claws, weight 120-130 grams, anal crimson bulge, such as hand pressure with white foam, indicating oestrus and capable of mating.

2. Timely breeding

The mating age of female quails is from 3 months to 1 year, and the best age of male quails is 4 ~ 6 months old. But in practice, male and female quails at the age of 50 and 60 began to mate and reproduce, and the breeding period was one year, which was changed year by year. Quails have the highest sexual desire in the morning and evening, the highest fertilization after mating, and the best mating after the first feeding in the morning. If you are sure of artificial hatching, quails can mate and breed all the year round.

3. Egg laying management

During egg laying, light is very important. According to the experiment, increasing light at night can increase the laying rate by 25%. Therefore, it is necessary to hang a 60-watt lamp and replenish the light for about 4 hours in order to achieve 16 hours of light every day. The rest of the time was changed to 4 watts of electric lighting.

4. Incubation technology

There are two kinds of quail hatching: natural hatching and artificial hatching. natural hatching can choose female chickens and female pigeons instead of hatching. artificial hatching is the use of chicken incubator to hatch selected quail eggs. The hatching temperature is slightly higher than the hatching temperature of chicks, which is usually 20-23 ℃ at room temperature, and the relative humidity should be about 65%. In the first two days before hatching, the humidity increases to more than 80%, and it is often ventilated. When the embryo is about to be broken and hatched, the eggs are rotated at an angle of 90 degrees every 2 to 3 hours to help the embryo move. The hatching period of breeding eggs is 17 days, and the chicks begin to feed and drink water 12 hours after they come out of their shells, no more than 24 hours at the latest.

After looking at so many breeding methods, as farmers and friends who want to raise quail, have they also learned some breeding methods and some matters needing attention in the breeding process? Hurry up and raise it! The fluffy little quail is waving to you!